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Billionaire self-pity and the Koch brothers - Glenn Greenwald. Since the financial crisis of 2008, one of the most revealing spectacles has been the parade of financial elites who petulantly insist that they are the victims of societal hostility: political officials heap too much blame on them, public policy burdens them so unfairly, the public resents them, and — most amazingly of all — President Obama is a radical egalitarian who is unprecedentedly hostile to business interests.

One particularly illustrative example was the whiny little multi-millionaire hedge fund manager (and CNBC contributor), Anthony Scaramucci, who stood up at an October, 201o, town hall meeting and demanded to know: ”when are we going to stop whacking at the Wall Street pinata?”
9 Bills That Would Put Creationism in the Classroom. Ginni Thomas joins The Daily Caller - Jennifer Epstein and Kenneth P. Vogel. Walker's Attack on People of Color. While Wisconsin protest coverage has focused on GOP efforts to limit public sector collective bargaining, less attention has been given to the Republican attack on the poor and people of color.

Jim DeMint: Public Broadcasting Should Go Private. Tea Party pollutocrat David Koch hosted one of Mitt Romney’s first fundraisers for 2012 campaign « Climate Progress. By Joe Romm on March 16, 2011 at 8:49 am "Tea Party pollutocrat David Koch hosted one of Mitt Romneys first fundraisers for 2012 campaign" Last year, the New York Times revealed that petrochemical billionaire David Koch was among a small group of multibillionaires quietly promoting a presidential candidacy for former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.

Today, a report by investigative journalist Peter Stone states that Koch actually hosted Romney last summer for one of his first large fundraising parties. ThinkProgress has the story. Romney’s team boasts veteran bigwig bundlers such as Woody Johnson, who owns the New York Jets; Wayne Berman, who chairs the lobbying firm Ogilvy Government Relations; and David Koch of Koch Industries. The Koch brothers have historically played a key role in selecting GOP candidates. During the ’90s, Koch heavily supported Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole.
Palin 'becoming Al Sharpton'? - Jonathan Martin and John F. Harris. Sarah Palin has played the sexism card, accusing critics of chauvinism against a strong woman.

She has played the class card, dismissing the Bush family as “blue bloods” and complaining that she is the target of snobbery by people who dislike her simply because she is “not so hoity-toity.” Most famously, she has played the victim card — never more vividly than when she invoked the loaded phrase “blood libel” against liberals and media commentators in the wake of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting. Continue Reading Palin defends 'blood libel'
Sarah Palin Has Secret ‘Lou Sarah’ Facebook Account To Praise Other Sarah Palin Facebook Account. Sarah Palin has apparently created a second Facebook account with her Gmail address so that this fake “Lou Sarah” person can praise the other Sarah Palin on Facebook.

Justice Thomas’s Wife Sets Up a Conservative Lobbying Shop. , the justice’s wife, said on libertyinc.co, a Web site for her new political consulting business, that she saw herself as an advocate for “liberty-loving citizens” who favored limited government, free enterprise and other core conservative issues.

She promised to use her “experience and connections” to help clients raise money and increase their political impact. Ms. Thomas’s effort to take a more operational role on conservative issues could intensify questions about her husband’s ability to remain independent on issues like campaign finance and health care, legal ethicists said. Justice Thomas “should not be sitting on a case or reviewing a statute that his wife has lobbied for,” said Monroe H.

Freedman, a Hofstra Law School professor specializing in legal ethics. Ms. The move comes a few months after she gave up the top spot at Liberty Central, a conservative Web site that she founded in 2009 and that has strong links to the Tea Party movement. Mr.
Tea Party Patriots Investigated: "They Use You and Abuse You"
Jacobs: Egyptians Need to Learn From America's Mistake of "Blindly Voting" For Change. Paul Ryan's State Of The Union Rebuttal: The Best They Got?
Paul Ryan delivered a heck of a rebuttal tonight, especially if you wanted to make one of those "Sarah Palin breathing" videos.

But as far as the facts -- on taxes, stimulus, and health care reform -- go, a lot of Ryan's rebuttal came rebutted-back in advance of its delivery. Ryan: Not Exactly A Budget-Busting Genius Ryan's budget plan doesn't balance the budget:
Health-care law: Arizona tries new approach to get by federal Medicaid rules. Republican efforts to repeal or limit the reach of the new health-care law took a new direction last week when Arizona lawmakers approved a novel and controversial attempt to cut Medicaid for 280,000 of the state's poor.

The bill, requested and signed by Gov. Jan Brewer (R), empowers her to make a formal request, most likely this week, for a federal waiver to avoid complying with provisions of the law that prohibit states from tightening their eligibility requirements for Medicaid. Twenty-nine Republican governors, including Brewer, have signed a letter calling on President Obama and congressional leaders to remove the provision from the law. But Arizona is the first state to, in effect, play chicken with the Obama administration by directly requesting a reprieve and daring Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to refuse.
The GOP Only Cares About Their Corporate Paymasters and Wealthy Elites Like the Kochs. January 19, 2011 | Like this article?

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Stephen Colbert Ridicules The Dismantling Of Wake County's Successful Schools. Last night, Stephen Colbert deployed "The Word" to bring his show's unique and wonderful brand of language-brutality upon the recent decision of the Wake County, N.C. school board to dismantle a successful school system that had achieved schools of high economic diversity and astounding rates of parent satisfaction.

The baseline reason given for taking apart a success story was austerity.
Doctors and Tea Party. The billionaire Koch brothers’ war against Obama. On May 17th, a black-tie audience at the Metropolitan Opera House applauded as a tall, jovial-looking billionaire took the stage. It was the seventieth annual spring gala of American Ballet Theatre, and David H.